Reflections on the notion of post-natal depression following examination of the scoring pattern of women on the EPDS during pregnancy and in the post-natal period

Authors: JOMEEN, J.¹; MARTIN, C. R.

Source: Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, Volume 15, Number 8, October 2008 , pp. 645-648(4)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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Abstract:

The scoring pattern of case-positive women on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) was explored over the antenatal and post-natal period. Individual analysis of EPDS scores over the antenatal and post-natal period revealed a picture of depressive symptom reporting inconsistent with the notion of a distinct and separate entity of post-natal depression. A fundamental assumption that post-natal depression has a typical pattern of comparatively higher post-natal depressive symptomology may be illusory when individual symptom profiles are explored.

Keywords: Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; post-natal depression; pregnancy

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2008.01282.x

Affiliations: 1: Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, and

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